We are indebted to the officers of the Exchange Bureau for New York papers of Wednesday last, the 17th inst. We give the following summary of the news they contain:
Proceedings in the Yankee Congress — peace resolutions.
In the Yankee Congress on Monday Fernando Wood, of New York, offered the following resolutions, which were laid on the table by a vote of 68 ayes to 59 nays:Whereas, The President, in his message delivered to this House on the 9th inst., and in his recommendation to the people to assemble at their places of worship and give thanks to God for recent victories, claims that the Union cause has gained important and substantial advantages; and whereas; in view of these triumphs, it is no longer beneath our dignity nor dangerous to our safety to evince a generous magnanimity, becoming a great and powerful people, by offering to the insurgents an opportunity to return to the Union without imposing upon them degrading or destructive conditions. Therefore be it.
Resolved, That the President be requested to appoint three commissioners, who shall be empowered to open negotiations with the authorities at Richmond, to the end that this bloody, destructive, and inhuman war shall cease, and the Union be restored upon terms of equity, fraternity, and equality under the Constitution.
The following are the members who voted against laying them on the table:
Messrs. James C. Allen, Wm. J. Allen, Anconn, N Baldwin, Bliss, Brooks, Chandler, Clay, Col. Edgerton, Eldridge, English, Fink, Grider, Barding, Harrington. Harris, (Md.,) Harris, (Ill,) Herrick, Holmes, Johnson, (Ohio,) Kernan, Kinu, Knapp, Law, Lazear, LeBlond, Long, Mallery, Marcy, McDowell, McKenncy, Miller, (Penn,) Morris, (Ohio,) Morrison, Nelson, Noble, Odell, O'Nell'., (Ohio,) Pendleton, Robinson, Rollina, (Mo.,) Ross, Scott, Stebbins, Steels, (N. Y.,) Stuart, Sweat, Vorhees, Wadsworth, Chilton N. White, Joseph W. White, Winfield, and Fernando Wood.
In the House on Tuesday Mr. Hardinge, of Ky., offered a resolution (which lies over,) that the "Union" is not dissolved, and that any rebel State which may voluntarily submit to the Yankee Government will be restored to "all its rights and privileges" under the Constitution of the United States Mr. Holman offered three resolutions, which were laid on the table — ayes 82, noes 74.--The following are two of the resolutions — the third declares that all appropriations of money ought to be promptly voted by Congress to support the Administration in carrying on the war:
Resolved, That the doctrine recently announced, that the States in which an armed insurrection has existed against the Federal Government have ceased to be States of the Union, and shall be held, in the ultimate defeat of that insurrection, as Territories or subjugated provinces, and governed as such by the absolute will of Congress or the Federal Executive, or restored to the Union on conditions unknown to the Constitution of the United States, ought to be rebuked and condemned as manifestly unjust to the loyal citizens of these States, tending to prolong the war, and to confirm the treasonable theory of secession, and, if carried into effect, must greatly endanger the public liberty and the constitutional powers and rights of all the States, by centralizing and consolidating the powers of the Government, State and National, in the Federal Executive.
Resolved, That the only object of the war ought to be to subjugate the armed insurrection, which, for the time being, has suspended the proper relations of certain States with the Federal Government, and to re-establish the supremacy of the Constitution; and the loyal citizens of those States and the masses of the people thereof, submitting to the authority of the Constitution, ought not to be hindered from restoring the proper relations of their respective States with the Federal Government, so far as the same is dependent on the voluntary act of the people, by any condition except unconditional submission to the Constitution and laws of the United States. In the language heretofore adopted by Congress, "the war ought not to be waged on our part for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, our purpose not being to overthrow or interfere with the rights or established institutions of these States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired, and as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Mr. Fink, of Ohio, offered similar resolutions, which laid over under the rule.
Mr. Rollins, (Dem.,) of Missouri, submitted the following:
‘ Resolved, That, prompted by a just patriotism, we are in favor of an earnest and successful prosecution of the war, and that we will give a warm and hearty support to all those measures which will be most effective in speedily overcoming the rebellion, and in securing a restoration of peace, and which may not substantially infringe the Constitution and tend to subvert the true theory and character of the Government; and we hereby reiterate that the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionist now in revolt against the Constitutional Government; that in the progress of the war Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged on our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor for the purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the honor, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
’ A motion was made to lay this resolution on the table, which was disagreed to — yeas 52, nays 115.
The New York Times, commenting on these movements, says:
‘ It is already plain that the minority of the House of Representatives intend regular and persistent opposition to the Administration in its prosecution of the war. What remains to be made plain is the spirit which prompts this opposition. Is it hostility to the present policy of the war, or is it hostility to the war itself?
’ We trust that an early occasion will be taken to test this matter. A proposition has, indeed, been already submitted by Fernando Wood, which might have served this purpose. He is one of the few outspoken peace men. His resolution to send Peace Commissioners to Richmond, presented the peace policy squarely. It ought to have been met squarely, instead of being shuffled out of the way. Probably the division that was actually made in the vote which laid the resolution on the table, indicates pretty well the extent of the peace feeling in the House. Yet, a vote not to lay a measure on the table, is not necessarily a committal to its support. We are not yet quite prepared to believe that there are fifty-nine members of that body who are anxious to open negotiations with Jeff. Davis. At all events, if it be so, the fact ought to be put beyond cavil. The people will then know how to interpret the constant votes which these men will hereafter give against the Administration. It will show that to that extent — that is to say, so far as relates to three-fourths of the minority — the animus of the opposition to the policy of the President is hostility to the war itself. This would be a very ugly fact before the people. The precipitancy with which this peace resolution was followed up by others of a mixed character, studiously framed to cover up the real issue, shows how the more politic of the anti-Administration leaders dread such an exposure. But an exposure should be forced upon them.
The exchange question — the stoppage of the supplies for Yankee prisoners at Richmond — the Senate on the exchange — Butler to conduct it.
The stoppage of supplies to the Yankee prisoners in Richmond has again turned Yankee attention to the subject of exchange, which would have jain quiet until both sides were equal in prisoners again. The following telegram from Butler, at Fortress Monroe, announced the fact:Fortress Monroe, Dec. 12, 1863. C. C. Fulton, Baltimore American:
Please give notice that the rebel authorities decline receiving any more packages or provisions for the Union prisoners, so that parties interested may refrain from forwarding any more goods to this point. Benj. F. Butler, Maj.-Gen. Com'g.
A dispatch from Fortress Monroe adds:
‘ Rev. Mr. Torrance, who went to City Point with Dr. Clement C. Barclay, returned this morning. --He had an interview with Capt. Hatch, who was sent from Richmond to meet him. He informed him of the above decision of the rebel Government, and gave as a reason therefore what they alleged to be as imputation on their honor by the press and Government authorities that they were not delivering the goods forwarded in good faith to the prisoners, and asserted that, of his own knowledge, the officers in Libby prison, from the immense supplies they had received, could set a table from their stores on hand equal to any hotel in the United States. He admitted there had been some irregularities in the supplies at one time, but that the officer who had been guilty of neglecting prisoners had been promptly removed and punished. As to the bad condition of the prisoners returned to Annapolis, he said they were extremes cases of consumption, and that it was a grave error on the part of the authorities to have allowed such prisoners to return. For the present nothing would be received but letters and enclosures of money, and Southern money had better be sent.
’ The intelligence of the stoppage weighed heavily on the stomach of Mr. Grinnell, of lowa, who offered, in view of it, the following resolutions in the Yankee House of Representatives, which were agreed to:
Whereas, since the breaking out of the rebellion
the prisoners held by the United States have been treated, under the rule of war, with the most humane considerations; and
Whereas, on learning that our soldiers of Richmond were suffering unto death for food and clothing by the confession of their captors in the language of Foote, of the rebel Congress, "The Commissary-General having starved the enemy's prisoners," the friends of the prisoners and the Soldiers' Aid Societies continued to forward food and clothing until forbidden by the rebel authorities: Therefore,
Resolved, That this is a wanton act of cruelty unprecedented in modern warfare, at war with the humane sentiments of the age, and merits the protest and execration of this House, and can but assign the authors of such infamous deeds to the reprobation of the Almighty.
In the Senate on Monday the subject of the exchange of prisoners was again brought up. Mr. Davis, of Ky., said he understood there were 13,000 Union prisoners in the Confederacy who are daily dying from disease and other causes. Upon the negro exchange question he said:
‘ The chief difficulty in regard to exchange of prisoners between the rebels and the United States is the refusal of the former to recognize negroes as prisoners of war. When the Congress of the United States proceeded to authorize the enlistment of colored troops for the suppression of the rebellion it was published throughout the South that negro troops were not entitled and should not receive the protection of the laws of war, and the most stringent terms which infuriated madness could devise were to be employed against them.
’ But disregarding these threats, negroes were enlisted in the army of the United States with the promise held out to them that after the war was over they would be citizens of the United States. Negroes are not, and never can be, citizens. White men alone made our Government, and they alone are recognized us citizens by the Constitution.--The negroes could be more judiciously used as laborers and in other capacities, while the white soldiers so employed could have been put in the field. They would then have been of more value than they are as soldiers. By adopting this course another cause of the intense aversion and desperate resistance of the rebels, and the deep dissatisfaction of loyal slaveholders everywhere, would have been avoided.
The white officers of those negro regiments know the hazards of the service by the previous threats of the rebel authorities, published in the newspapers. The United States authorities having enlisted the negro soldiers, are bound to make exchanges of them as far as possible, but not to the prejudice of white soldiers, who are dying from disease and starvation in rebel prisons. It this captivity prolonged their lives, or gave health and strength to the negroes, then there would be a pretext for those who give the first place in their sympathies to that race. But the sufferings of the white prisoners brings no help to the negroes. If the officials who thus continue in miserable captivity the brave soldiers of the Union could take their places, I would not interpose a word of exception. According to my ideas, justice, humanity, and policy, require that energetic efforts should be made for their exchange. The Government should make every effort to rescue from captivity our brave heroes who are languishing and dying in the Libby and other prisons of the South.
Mr. Johnson said be concurred in the resolution of the Senator from Kentucky, that policy and humanity demanded that the exchange of prisoners should go on, notwithstanding the refusal of the rebels to exchange our negro soldiers. There were, he said, two or three hundred negro soldiers and a few of their officers in the hands of the rebel authorities, which the latter refuse to exchange. This refusal need not prevent the exchange of the other prisoners. All that is necessary would be to retain in our hands a like number of prisoners, and free a certain number, amounting in the aggregate to the number liberated by the rebels.
Therefore, assuming that the facts of the resolution of the Senator from Kentucky are true, he thought right, humanity, and policy demand such an exchange. If we adhere to the present policy until we can get an equitable exchange, how many of those gallant young men who rallied to the support of their country will die? As far, therefore, as the particular resolution is concerned, he would vote in favor of it. But he could not agree with the Senator from Kentucky that men of African descent cannot be enlisted because they are not citizens of the United States.
Mr. Davis replied, making some inquiries of Mr. Johnson, and declaring that the whole structure of the Government would go down on the principles which were advocated; further arraigning the party in power for a determination to perpetuate the present dynasty, using the war for that purpose, &c.
Mr. Hale protested against the atrocious allegation that the dominant party was determined that the war should not stop during this Administration. If such were true he would more willingly take the hand of one from the charnel-house than the hand of those Senators who entertain such a monstrous purpose.
Mr. Davis said he had referred to the Administration, and asked — Did not the gentleman from New Hampshire at the last session declare that the army of plunderers marching on the Treasury was greater than that in the field?
Mr. Lane, of Indiana, inquired of the gentleman from Kentucky who was the Major General in the army who had said if Mr. Lincoln was not re-elected President, he would hold on to the power of the Government by the aid of the army, notwithstanding? Such an officer was unworthy of his position, and should be dismissed. But supposing what he had said to be true, then was the Administration unworthy of the support of the people.
Mr. Davis said a former member of the other House, now a Major General in the army, had told him of this. He would give to the gentleman from Indiana the name of the officer in confidence, but not otherwise.
The resolution of Mr. Davis was then referred to the Military Committee, and the Senate adjourned.
A Washington telegram to the New York Herald, dated the 14th inst., says:
‘ An effort is being made to give to Gen. Butler full authority to negotiate the exchange of our prisoners now languishing in Richmond. It is understood here that he has expressed his willingness to undertake it, and his confidence in his ability to effect it. It is, moreover, understood that he will be acceptable to the Richmond authorities as a negotiator, and that they will be disposed to treat on the basis of considering all our captured negro soldiers not claimed as slaves by their owners on the same tooting as our white soldiers.
’
The captured steamer Chesapeake — particulars of the capture — her Whereabouts.
There are four different telegrams in the New York papers placing the captured steamer Chesapeake at as many different places. The leading parties who captured her are said to be Osborne, a well known coast pilot, Col. Braine, Lieut. H. A. Parr, and Lieut. D. Collins, and Sallingmaster D. Robinson. The Captain of the Chesapeake has furnished a statement of the affair, from which we take the following:Captain Willets says that at a quarter past one o'clock on the morning of Monday, the 7th inst., he was awakened by Mr. Johnson, the mate, who told him that the second engineer had been shot. The captain supposed it was done by the passengers, who afterwards turned out to be pirates. It appears, at the time of the rising of the villains, that the vessel was about twenty miles north northeast of Cape Cod, heading up for Portland, and that the night was dark. The mate went to the pantry for some purpose, when he saw one of the pirates fire a pistol at Mr. Shaffer, the ball taking effect under the right ear and in the neck. Mr. Shaffer had been down below, oiling the engine, and had just come up on the grating when he received his first mortal wound; but enough of life remained in him to reach the deck, when he fell a corpse. Two more balls were put into his head after he was dead.
Mr. Johnson, the mate, now fled to warn the captain, while three or four of the devils incarnate pursued him, firing at him rapidly. No sooner had Captain Willets reached the deck than he met a volley of pistol balls. He went all and sought to regain his room, where he had firearms; but, finding he was pursued too closely, he endeavored to reach the pilot house, and just as he was about to enter it he was seized, and, with a pistol held close to his face, was put in irons. Strange to say, while he was at the engine-room door and in his run around the deck, although fifteen balls passed close to him, and at one time two men who were pursuing him were not twelve feet from him, and while at the pilot house three or four persons fired at him, yet he escaped harm. After being ironed Captain Willets was placed in his room and a guard put over him.
One pirate went down into the fire-room and found a fireman at work, busily engaged in attending to his duties; he let fly a shot at him, but missed his mark. The poor fellow sought refuge in a coal-bunker, but was finally brought out and put in irons, and kept below in charge of this would-be murderer. It seems that the pirates did not relish much talking, as the second engineer, who was killed, was not spoken to by this murderer. Mr. Johnson, the chief engineer, was shot in the chin, and Mr. Johnson, the chief officer, was wounded in the arm and also in the knee-joint These gentlemen were put in irons, and the sailors and firemen, who were below and asleep at the time of the shooting, and had been kept below by securing the forecastle hatch, were brought up and placed in irons.
During this time, which occupied only a few minutes, the ship-had been going ahead at her own will, the engines at their usual speed, and the helm still remaining in charge of the helmsman, Osborne now took charge of the vessel put her on her course, and ordered the body of Schaffer to be thrown overboard and sunk by means of a large piece of iron which was fastened to it. The Captain and the officers were now sent to the cabin, and a guard placed over them. The five bona fide passengers, who were old see captains, were not molested, but were told if they interfered in any manner they would be shot. The third assistant engineer was now relieved of his irons and put in charge of the engine, and one fireman was released to keep the fires in order. Occasionally the chief engineer was allowed to visit the engine-room to see if everything was going on right, as they feared
the inexperience of the engineer might lead to some disastrous results.
From two o'clock in the morning until daylight Captain Willets had no opportunity of learning what was going on upon . At any rate, everything was quiet. At sunrise and occasionally afterwards, the prisoners were allowed to come up to get the air. At the time the steward was notified to prepare the breakfast, which was conducted in the usual manner, save that, for fear of being poisoned, the cook was compelled to taste of everything in their presence, and he was watched very closely breakfast, of which the pirates, the captives, the passengers partook of as if nothing had The Captain was detained all idle his officers' rooms were ransacked. Of the contents of the cargo they knew full well, and did not disturb it.
Nothing unusual occurred on Monday night; but on Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock the Chesapeake was brought to anchor in Seal Harbor, at the Island of Grand Menan. Col. Distue then ordered a boat to be lowered and manned by the pirates. He then went on shore to obtain further orders. He returned at noon, when the steamer was got under weigh, and stood off to the southwestward of the island, then, entering the river, headed up for St. John, N. B. On arriving at a given point the American ensign was set, union down, and in respond a St. John pilot boat, commanded by one Captain Multheron, put off. The steamer was stopped, and a boat came alongside, bringing a man who gave his name as Smith. This fellow conferred with Osborne and his clates, and then returned to the pilot boat. Now "John Parker," former commander of the privateer Retribution, came on board and assumed sole command, leaving Osborne — who had been kicking his pirate craw unkindly a little while before — out in the cold.
After Parker came on board the pilot-boat was taken in tow, Smith still being on board of the pilot-boat, and the steamer was headed for Dipper Harbor, which is about twelve miles from St. John. At 7 o'clock in the evening she came to at Dipper Harbor, and the captives were allowed just ten minutes to transfer themselves and their allowance of baggage to the pilot boat. The captain, officers, and men were robbed of half their clothing and effects. Having embarked on the pilot-boat, the Chesapeake towed her up the river towards St. John, say five miles from Dipper Harbor, when she cast her tow off and started off.--She then went off the same way she came, picking up a schooner, which is supposed to have had guns, ammunition, and a few coats on board for the pirate steamer.
Yankee defeat in East Tennessee--their cavalry driven back.
A telegram from Rutledge, Tenn., dated Monday, Dec. 14th, says:‘ Between 2 and 3 o'clock this afternoon the forcer of Longstreet turned upon and attacked our pursuing column of cavalry under Gen. Shackelford.--Line of battle was formed at Bean Station, on the Cumberland Gap and Morristown road, and a fight ensued, which continued until nightfall, when the rebels had succeeded in driving us about half a mile.
’ Cols. Woolford, Graham, Foster, and others, were engaged. The musketry fire was very heavy. Our less, as far as I can ascertain, is about 75. We have taken some prisoners belonging to the rebel Gen. Gracie's brigade.
The whole movement was made with a well-contrived plan to cut off and capture Gen Shackelford and his command, and a heavy force of rebel cavalry moved down the left bank of the Holsten river with the intention of crossing at Keely's Ford and coming in his rear.
This portion of the programme was checked by Gen. Ferreror, who sent the brigade of Gen. Humphreys to hold the ford. The rebels fired across the river with artillery upon the brigade, but with little effect. We expect a considerable fight tomorrow.
[It will be seen by a Confederate telegram elsewhere in to-day's Dispatch that they got the "considerable fight," and were on the run for Knoxville when last heard from.]
Nashville, Dec. 15.--There is a rumor here that Gen. Sheridan, commanding the column in pursuit of Longstreet, encountered the rebel rear guard east of Knoxville and sustained a heavy repulse, in which Gen. Sheridan is said to have been badly wounded. The rumor is not generally credited at Gen. Burnside's headquarters, but it is traced to several distinct sources.
The capture of Robinson's cavalry on the Peninsula — Excursion into North Carolina.
The following dispatches from For tress Monroe are published in the New York papers under the heading "Victory on the Peninsula — Charles City and the Entire Garrison Captured. " They contain the particulars of the capture of the 82 highly valuable Confederate cavalry men at Charles City C. H. last week:
Gen. Wistar, with my approbation, sent out an expedition to Charles City Court-House, on the James river, to capture the enemy's force stationed there, and I have the pleasure to forward his report of its complete success.
What adds to the brilliancy of the achievement is that it has been accomplished during a terrible storm.
Details of the Captures.
"I have the satisfaction to announce the complete success of the expedition sent out under Colonel West, all worked in successful combination. Our cavalry carried the enemy's camp at Charles City Court-House after sharp fighting, the enemy firing from their houses. We captured eight officers and eighty-two enlisted men, being the whole command of three companies, fifty-five horses and three mules, besides many shot, &c., left on the ground, the enemy's camp with equipments, arms, and ammunition and provisions all thoroughly destroyed."Our loss is Captain Gregory, severely wounded, one Sergeant and one Corporal killed, and four men wounded.
"The New York Mounted Rifles in fourteen hours marched seventy-six miles. The 13th New York Infantry in fifty-four hours marched sixty-four miles, mostly in a severe storm, moving day and night, and walking their shoes off, which should be made good by the Government.
"All are entitled to high commendation for gallantry and unflinching endurance; Colonel West, especially, for his precise execution of a difficult combination, which alone could have accomplished my object. J. J. Wistar Brigadier General."
General Butler has also sent out another "important" expedition undertaken by Brigadier-Gen. Wild, commanding the negro brigade in the Eighteenth army corps. Starting out from the vicinity of Portsmouth, Va., on Saturday, the 5th instant, and marching in two columns by different routes, the brigade united at Hintonsville, North Carolina, whence an advance was made on Elizabeth City, which was occupied on the 10th without opposition, the "rebels" being taken by surprise. Artillery and cavalry, as well as considerable naval force have left to cooperate with General Wild, and Elizabeth City is likely to be made the base of "important" operations.
Military Affairs in Texas.
According to the Northern accounts the Confederates are massing a heavy force in Texas. The St. Louis Democrat gets the following information from a person when left Denton, Texas, on the 1st inst:‘ The rebel army in Texas was generally at posts on the outskirts of the State. Kirby Smith commanded the troops in Texas. Gen. Steele is at Dakinville, seven miles north of the Red river, near the State line, with a small force. Rebel pickets are at the crossing of the river and line the road. Price is 18 miles south of Washington, with 3,600 or 4,000 men. The entire force of the enemy under Marmaduke, Shelby, and Cabelle, are near him.
’ Quantrell has been in Texas four weeks. His command of 400 men are distributed in detachments in various counties in Northwestern Texas. Their business seemed to be to act as spies on the people, hold the county in subjection, arrest deserters, kill suspected Union men, and plunder indiscriminately.
Provisions and forage are plenty in the valley of the Red river and in Eastern Texas.
Disposition of Federal vessels-of-war off Charleston.
A correspondent of the Boston Traveller writing off Charleston, December 5th, furnishes the following statement in regard to the movements of the Federal vessel-of-war:‘ Another attempt by our army to surprise Sumter was frustrated by the watchfulness of the rebel sentries. November 23d the Lehigh arrived at Port Royal for repairs and a general overhauling, preparatory to the approaching final attack on Charleston.
’ A few changes have taken place in this fleet off late. Capt. Wm. Gibson, of the Seneca, takes command of the Cattskill. The Patapsco goes to Warsaw to relieve the Nantucket; the Mahaska, Capt. Creighton, has gone to Charleston, as has also the Wissahickon and South Carolina, which latter, it is rumored, is to be made the flagship of Admiral Dahlgren; the Midnight, John Adams, Seneca, Chippewa, Ethan Allen, Gem of the Sea, E E. Hale, and Memphis, are here now; the Cattskill left to-day.
Miscellaneous.
The Clerk of the Senate Military Committee, the House Librarian, and several other minor officials at the capitol, who have been suspected of sympathy with the Secessionists, were on Monday relieved, and their places filled with true loyalists.Maj. Gen. Butler, in obedience to orders of Lincoln, has granted a reprieve to all persons in his department under sentence of death, until further orders.
Maj.-Gen. Buford, a valuable cavalry officer, died in Washington on Monday at 2½ o'clock. At 12 o'clock he received from the President his commission as Major-General. He sadly expressed his regret that he could not live to honor it in the field.
Maj.-Gen. Palmer, commanding the 14th army
corps, under Grant, has resigned, but been ordered back to his command.
Horace Maynard, the Yankee Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, declares in a published letter that the usual county elections are to be held in March next in that State.
Gen. French, of Meade's army, is under arrest for Jetting Johnson's division whip him. He says he was ordered to find the enemy and fight him, and he did what he was ordered.
The pickets of the Army of the Potomac still occupy a post south of Culpeper C. H.
The Yankee Government has information it is said, that about ten thousand deserters from its army are now in Canada, and in a destitute condition.
The Ohio election was duly observed on the 23d October by the officers from that State--one hundred and sixty-three in number — confined in the Libby Prison, at Richmond. The poll-book and tally list have arrived at Columbus. Of the whole number of votes cast John Brough received one hundred and sixty-two--one was given for H. J. Jewelt and none for Vallandigham.
George W. Longley, of Baltimore, employed by the Sanitary Commission, was captured by the Confederates, near Chancellorsville, on the late advance. Efforts are being made through Gen. Hitchcock to have him released.
Bridgeport, Conn., for a long time a thoroughly secession place, was the scene of a Union victory on Monday--the entire loyal ticket for charter officers having been chosen by majorities ranging from 80 to 113.
The authorities of a number of towns in Massachusetts propose to fill their quotas of volunteers by recruiting contrabands from Virginia and other border States, and arrangements in this end have in several cases, nearly reached completion.
The Legislature of Kentucky has postponed the time for the election of United States Senator from that State to the 21st of January.
Gen Meade demands a court of inquiry into the conduct of the recent advance across the Rapidan, and the sudden retreat across that river.
Gold was quoted in New York Tuesday at 149½
